US6973916B2 - Electronic control type throttle valve apparatus, non-contact type rotation angle detecting apparatus used in electronic control type throttle valve apparatus etc. and signal processing apparatus for hall element - Google Patents

Electronic control type throttle valve apparatus, non-contact type rotation angle detecting apparatus used in electronic control type throttle valve apparatus etc. and signal processing apparatus for hall element Download PDF

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US6973916B2
US6973916B2 US10/449,479 US44947903A US6973916B2 US 6973916 B2 US6973916 B2 US 6973916B2 US 44947903 A US44947903 A US 44947903A US 6973916 B2 US6973916 B2 US 6973916B2
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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  • the present invention relates to a rotation angle detecting apparatus using a hall element, a signal processing apparatus for the hall element and a throttle valve apparatus for an automobile using the rotation angle detecting apparatus, and preferably relates to an electronic control type throttle valve apparatus provided with a throttle valve driven by a motor.
  • a non-contact type rotation angle detecting apparatus that is, a rotation angle sensor
  • magnets are attached to a rotation shaft and the rotation angle of the rotation shaft is detected in cooperation with the magnets and hall elements disposed at the periphery of the rotation shaft.
  • the rotation angle detecting apparatus it is known to constitute the hall elements and a circuit (a zero span adjustment circuit) for performing zero-span adjustment of the outputs of the hall elements and/or a circuit (a temperature compensation circuit) for compensating temperature drift of the hall elements as a single semiconductor package (chip) thereby to enhance the function of the sensor.
  • a circuit for performing zero-span adjustment of the outputs of the hall elements and/or a circuit (a temperature compensation circuit) for compensating temperature drift of the hall elements as a single semiconductor package (chip) thereby to enhance the function of the sensor.
  • a configuration is generally known as a hall IC.
  • JP-A-8-68606 discloses the technique in which as a sensing unit for detecting a rotation angle, an EPROM and a register constituting an amplifier circuit and an adjustment circuit etc. are integrated together with a magnetic sensitive element formed by hall elements thereby to constitute a single chip.
  • JP-A-2000-74613 discloses the technique that in a throttle valve sensor, a hall element generates a hall voltage in response to magnetic flux density changed in accordance with the opening degree of the throttle valve and an IC receives the hall voltage thereby to perform various kinds of processing such as temperature characteristic compensation.
  • the hall elements, the A/D (analog to digital) conversion circuit, the zero span adjustment circuit and the temperature compensation circuit are collectively housed within a single mold resin.
  • an analog transmission system is employed since a microcomputer on a signal receiving side is configured to convert the along input into a digital signal.
  • a D/A (digital to analog) conversion circuit for converting the digital signal into an analog signal is also housed within the mold resin for the hall IC.
  • both the A/D conversion circuit and the D/A conversion circuit are provided within the hall IC, it takes 4 milli-seconds (ms) as a signal processing time in total until the signal having been inputted into the hall IC is outputted therefrom, that is, 2 ms for each of the A/D conversion and the D/A conversion.
  • an object of the present invention is to eliminate wasteful or duplicated conversion processing of a hall element so that the output of the hall element can be applied to a processing circuit at the succeeding stage as early as possible thereby not to cause control delay etc. of a device, for example.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide suitable configuration for the rotation angle detecting apparatus, using such a hall element, of a throttle valve shaft for an automobile.
  • Still another object of the present invention is to provide a throttle valve apparatus attached with such a sensor.
  • the present invention is basically configured in the following manner.
  • a non-contact type rotation angle detection apparatus in which a hall element generates an electric signal relating to a rotation angle of a rotation shaft in accordance with mutual operation between a magnet attached to the rotation shaft and the hall element, the apparatus further including:
  • the output of the analog-to-digital conversion circuit is transferred to the microcomputer through a communication line.
  • An output signal processing apparatus for a hall element which includes two hall elements disposed at different positions along a rotation direction of a rotation shaft and each responsive to rotation of the rotation shaft, and which is arranged to output a signal relating to a rotation position of the rotation shaft based on output signals from the two hall elements, the output signal processing apparatus for a hall element including:
  • the signal transmission path includes an amplifier for amplifying the output of the hall element and an electric conductor for coupling between the amplifier and the terminal of the connector.
  • An electronic control type throttle valve apparatus includes:
  • a deceleration gear mechanism is provided between an output shaft of the motor and the throttle valve shaft, wherein the casing also serves as a gear cover for covering the deceleration gear mechanism.
  • An electronic control type throttle valve apparatus includes:
  • FIG. 1 is a circuit block diagram showing the configuration of an electron control type throttle valve apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a relation between a gear cover and sensor chips (circuit mold chips) in the first embodiment.
  • FIG. 3 is a circuit block diagram showing the configuration of an electron control type throttle valve apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a circuit block diagram showing the configuration of an electron control type throttle valve apparatus according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a circuit block diagram showing the configuration of an electron control type throttle valve apparatus according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram showing the configuration of a sensor chip in the fourth embodiment.
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing the principle of a magnetic sensitive type rotation position sensor.
  • FIG. 8 is an oblique perspective view of FIG. 7 .
  • FIG. 9 is an oblique perspective view in which magnetizing direction is added in FIG. 8 .
  • FIG. 10 is an oblique perspective view in which vectors of magnetic density are added in FIG. 8 .
  • FIG. 11 is a longitudinal sectional diagram (a sectional diagram along a line A—A in FIG. 14 ) showing a state where the rotation position sensor (throttle position sensor) according to the first embodiment is mounted in a throttle body.
  • FIG. 12 is a sectional diagram showing only the rotation position sensor in the configuration of FIG. 11 .
  • FIG. 13 is a top view in which a cover and an upper stator are removed from the rotation position sensor shown in FIG. 14 thereby to show the inner structure of a housing and also is a top view showing a connector portion.
  • FIG. 14 is a plan view of the gear cover.
  • FIG. 15 is a partial enlarged perspective view of FIG. 13 .
  • FIG. 16 is a partial enlarged view of FIG. 13 .
  • FIG. 1 is a circuit block diagram showing the configuration of an electron control type throttle valve apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
  • the throttle valve apparatus is provided with, when classified briefly, (1) a throttle valve mechanism A configured by a throttle valve 310 housed within a throttle body 300 and a deceleration mechanism 303 etc. for transmitting power of a motor 300 (electrically driven actuator) to a throttle valve shaft 40 , (2) a sensor module B for detecting the rotation angle (opening degree) of the throttle valve 310 , and (3) a throttle control module (hereinafter referred to a TCM) for calculating a throttle valve control signal based on an output signal from the sensor module B.
  • a throttle valve mechanism A configured by a throttle valve 310 housed within a throttle body 300 and a deceleration mechanism 303 etc. for transmitting power of a motor 300 (electrically driven actuator) to a throttle valve shaft 40
  • a sensor module B for detecting the rotation angle (opening degree) of the throttle valve 310
  • a throttle control module hereinafter referred to a TCM
  • the throttle body 300 constitutes a part of an intake air path of an internal combustion engine and the throttle valve 310 is disposed at the intake air path.
  • the sensor module B acts as a throttle position sensor for detecting the opening degree of the throttle valve and is configured by a permanent magnet 31 provided at an end 41 of the throttle valve shaft 40 and chips 6 which output change in accordance with the rotation deviation of the permanent magnet 31 .
  • Each of the chips 6 is formed as a single chip so as to include a hall element (a magnetic sensitive element) and an amplifier circuit for amplifying the output of the hall element.
  • the sensor chip may be called as a hall IC. Although each of the sensor chips acts sufficiently, two sensor chips are employed so as to perform the backup operation to each other when one of these sensor chips becomes failure or to perform the check operation at the time of failure diagnosis.
  • FIG. 8 is a diagram seen through an upper stator 4 and showing the arrangement of the upper stator 4 , a lower stator 2 ( 2 A, 2 B), a rotor (permanent magnet) 31 and the chips 6 .
  • the ring-shaped permanent magnet 31 is attached to the tip end of the rotation shaft (the throttle valve shaft) 41 serving as a detected member to constitute the rotor.
  • the rotor 31 is disposed between magnetic plates (the upper stator and the lower stator) 4 , 2 ( 2 A, 2 B) disposed in the vertical direction so as to oppose to each other. At least one of the upper and lower stators is arranged in a split manner in the horizontal direction. In this embodiment, the lower stator 2 is divided into two pieces 2 A and 2 B thereby to secure an air gap G therebetween.
  • the upper stator 4 and the lower stators 2 A, 2 B have magnetic projections 401 , 402 and 201 , 202 serving as magnetic flux converging portions, respectively.
  • the magnetic projections 401 and 201 are disposed so as to oppose to each other with a uniform gap therebetween.
  • the magnetic projections 402 and 202 are disposed so as to oppose to each other in the similar manner.
  • the chips 6 having the hall elements are sandwiched between the magnetic projections 401 , 201 and the magnetic projections 402 , 202 , respectively.
  • the magnetic projection at the upper stator and the magnetic projection at the lower stator are integrally formed in this embodiment, the magnetic projection at the upper stator may be formed separately from the magnetic projection at the lower stator in advance and these magnetic projections may be combined by the welding process etc.
  • the magnetic projections are disposed at positions opposing to the outer periphery of the rotor 31 through the air gap.
  • the sensor chip 6 is configured by a circuit mold chip which is formed in a manner that the hall element and the amplifier circuit are integrated and sealed in a mold resin thereby to form in a chip shape.
  • the rotor 31 is magnetized almost in vertical direction as shown by arrows in FIG. 9 . That is, the rotor 31 is magnetized upward in the range of 180 degrees in the rotational direction and magnetized downward in the range of the remaining 180 degrees.
  • the magnetic density fluxes in this case are distributed as shown by arrows in FIG. 10 . That is, the magnetic field generated by the rotor 31 forms a magnetic path passing through the upper and lower stators 401 , 402 .
  • the magnetic fluxes converged by the magnetic projections 401 , 201 and the magnetic projections 402 , 202 pass through the corresponding chips 6 , respectively.
  • An amount of the magnetic fluxes passing through the sensor chip changes in accordance with the rotational position of the rotor 31 .
  • a signal according to the change of the amount of the magnetic fluxes is outputted from the sensor chip 6 , whereby it is possible to detect the rotational position (rotation angle).
  • FIG. 6 shows an example of the circuit configuration of the rotation angle detection apparatus in the case of using the two sensor chips (the circuit module chips) 6 .
  • Each of the chips 6 is coupled between a power source VDD and the ground GND.
  • the output of one of the hall ICs 6 is 2 is taken from an output terminal Si and the output of the other of the hall ICs 6 is 2 is taken from an output terminal S 2 .
  • a capacitor C 3 is coupled between the power source VDD and the ground GND, a capacitor C 1 is coupled between the output terminal S 1 and the ground GND and a capacitor C 2 is coupled between the output terminal S 2 and the ground GND.
  • the capacitor C 3 is used for protecting from electric disturbance noise and surge.
  • Each of the capacitors C 1 and C 2 operates as an element not only for protecting from electric disturbance noise and surge but also for filtering the internal noise of the hall IC.
  • Each of the capacitors C 1 , C 2 and C 3 may be used by itself or may be used together with a zener diode and a resistor (each not shown), as the occasion demands.
  • the TCM includes input/output interfaces 50 , 51 corresponding to the chips 6 , respectively; storage devices 52 , 53 for storing zero-span data (zero-point data) and a temperature characteristic table relating to the outputs from the chips 6 , respectively; digital processing circuits (temperature compensation circuits and zero-span adjusting circuits) 54 , 55 for subjecting the outputs of the chips 6 to zero-span (zero-point) adjustment and temperature compensation by digital processings, respectively; a microcomputer 56 for controlling the opening degree of the throttle valve; and a driving circuit 57 for driving a throttle valve driving motor.
  • the outputs from the chips 6 are converted into digital data by the input/output interfaces 50 , 51 and sent to the circuits r 54 , 55 , respectively.
  • the zero-span data is obtained in a manner that the outputs of the chips 6 obtained when the throttle valve opening degree is set to zero (the minimum) are subjected to the digital processing and the values obtained by the digital processing are stored in the storage devices 52 , 53 as zero-point outputs, respectively.
  • Each of the storage devices 52 , 53 has a plurality of the temperature characteristics tables relating to the output of the hall element in correspondence with temperature ranges.
  • Each of the digital processing circuits 54 , 55 subjects the outputs (the throttle valve opening degree signal and the rotation angle signal) of the corresponding sensor chip 6 having been A/D converted to the zero-point adjustment and also to the temperature compensation (temperature correction) by using the temperature characteristic tables according to the ambient temperature of the sensor chip 6 and sends data thus subjected to the zero-point adjustment and the temperature compensation to the microcomputer 56 .
  • the microcomputer 56 serves as a main portion for controlling the throttle valve opening degree and includes a ROM for storing control program, a RAM for storing the throttle valve opening degree signal etc. in a randomly rewritable state, and a central processing unit (CPU) which inputs a target throttle valve opening degree inputted from an engine control unit (ECU) disposed outside and an actual throttle valve opening degree signal thereby to calculate a control signal so that the throttle valve has the target opening degree.
  • the driving circuit 57 is driven by the control signal from the CPU thereby to control the motor current.
  • the driving circuit 57 is formed by a pulse width modulation circuit (PWM), for example.
  • PWM pulse width modulation circuit
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a state where the stators are omitted and the two chips 6 are incorporated within the cover 100 .
  • the chips 6 are illustrated exaggeratedly in their sizes, and in fact the ratio of the chips 6 occupying within the gear cover 100 is small as shown in FIG. 13 , for example.
  • Each of the chips 6 is formed by sealing both a magnetic sensitive element (hall element) 61 and an amplifier circuit (AMP) 62 together within a mold resin (shown by an alternate long and short dash line) and is provided with, as terminals, a power source terminal (Vcc) 8 A, a ground terminal (GND) 8 B and output terminals (S 1 , S 2 ) 8 C.
  • a power source terminal Vcc
  • GND ground terminal
  • S 1 , S 2 output terminals
  • a connector case 60 is integrally formed with the resin cover 100 .
  • a power source line 7 A, a ground line 7 B, output signal lines 7 C 1 , 7 C 2 are buried within the resin cover 100 through the insert molding.
  • the one ends 7 A 7 B of these lines and the output signal lines 7 C 1 7 C 2 are exposed at the inner surface of the cover 100 and coupled to the corresponding terminals 8 A, 8 B, 8 C of the chips 6 .
  • the other ends 70 A, 70 B, 70 C 1 , 70 C 2 thereof protrude within the connector case 60 as connector terminals.
  • the power source lines (+ line) 7 D and ( ⁇ line) 7 E of the motor 302 for driving the throttle valve are buried within the resin cover 100 through the insert molding.
  • the one ends 7 D 7 E of these power source lines are exposed at the inner surface of the cover 100 and coupled to the power source terminals of the motor 302 , and the other ends 70 D, 70 E thereof protrude within the connector case 60 as connector terminals.
  • the output signals of the hall element 61 are subjected to the A/D conversion at the outside of the circuit mold chip 6 .
  • a signal processing apparatus for the hall element only an A/D converter 50 ( 51 ) is provided at a signal transmission path from the output terminal of the hall element 61 to the input interface of the microcomputer 54 .
  • the rotation angle detecting apparatus (the throttle position sensor) which is high in the signal transmission speed and excellent in the responsibility. That is, a time period required for the input processing of the output signal of the hall element 61 can be made shorter than a calculation period required for the digital calculation of the electric signal for controlling the motor. Further, the signal transmission path from the output terminal of the hall element to the connecter terminal can be configured so that a time period required for the signal generated from the hall element 61 to appear at the signal extracting terminals 70 C 1 , 70 C 2 is made shorter than a time period required for the A/D conversion.
  • FIG. 11 is a longitudinal sectional diagram (a sectional diagram along a line A—A in FIG. 14 ) of a non-contact type throttle valve apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 12 is a sectional diagram showing only the rotation angle detection apparatus (the throttle position sensor) in the configuration of FIG. 11 .
  • FIG. 13 is a top view in which the sensor cover 5 and the upper stator 4 are removed from the gear cover 100 thereby to show the inner side of the housing and also is a top view showing the connector portion.
  • FIG. 14 is a plan view of the gear cover 100 to be attached to the throttle body 300 .
  • FIG. 15 is a partial perspective view of FIG. 13
  • FIG. 16 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 13 .
  • the gear cover 100 for the gear mechanism 303 for transmitting the motor power is attached to the throttle body 300 having the throttle valve 310 .
  • the throttle position sensor (the throttle valve rotation angle detection apparatus) is attached to the gear cover 100 .
  • the gear cover 100 is made of composite resin and is formed integrally with a connector 60 having external connection terminals 70 A, 70 B, 70 C 1 , 70 C 2 , 70 D, 70 E for electrically coupling with an external device and the power source.
  • the throttle body 300 is integrally formed with a motor housing 301 for housing the motor 302 for driving the throttle valve shaft 40 and a gear housing 306 for disposing the gear mechanism 303 and a default mechanism.
  • the gear cover 100 covers the gear housing 306 and a sensor housing 1 is formed at the gear cover 100 .
  • the power source terminal 302 A and the ground terminal 302 B of the motor 302 are coupled to intermediate terminals 312 A, 312 B provided at the gear cover 100 through a coupling metal member 311 , respectively.
  • the power of the motor 302 is transmitted to the throttle valve shaft 40 through the gear mechanism 303 (a pinion 303 A, an intermediate gear 303 B, a final gear 303 C) thereby to drive the throttle valve 310 .
  • the housing 1 is provided at the bottom wall thereof with a lateral hole 45 for introducing the one end 41 of the rotation shaft 40 .
  • two recess portions 3 for housing the lower stators 2 A, 2 B therein are formed separately in the left and right direction at the periphery of the lateral hole 45 .
  • the lower stators 2 A, 2 B are attached to the recess portions 3 by means of adhesive, respectively.
  • the lower stators 2 A, 2 B are held by the housing 1 by means of the adhesive, the lower stators 2 A, 2 B may be held by the housing 1 through the insert molding in stead of the adhesive.
  • a spacer 12 (see FIG. 15 ) having both function of relatively positioning the upper stator 4 with the lower stators 2 A, 2 B and maintaining the space between both the upper an lower stators is formed integrally with the housing 1 .
  • the spacer 12 is formed so as to cover the four corners of the lower stators 2 A, 2 B and L-shaped convex portions 12 A for receiving the corner portions of the upper stator 4 are formed at the upper surface of the spacer.
  • the connector 60 is integrally formed with the cover 100 at the side surface of the gear cover 100 .
  • the external connection terminals formed at the connector 60 through the insert molding include the terminals 70 A, 70 B, 70 C 1 , 70 C 2 used for the two hall ICs 6 of the rotational position sensor and the terminals 70 D, 70 E for the motor for driving the throttle valve, as shown in FIG. 13 .
  • these terminals VDD and GND are shared by the two chips 6 .
  • the external connection terminal 70 B is hidden by the terminal 70 C 2 and so not shown, also the external connection terminal 70 C 1 is hidden by the terminal 70 A and so not shown, and further the external connection terminal 70 E is hidden by the terminal 70 D and so not shown.
  • the external connection terminals relating to the rotational position sensor have four terminals in total, that is, the one power source terminal 70 A (VDD), the one ground terminal 70 B (GND) and the two sensor input/output terminals 70 C 1 , 70 C 2 (S 1 , S 2 ).
  • the external connection terminals have six terminals in total, that is, these four terminals relating to the sensor, the one power source terminal 70 D for the motor and the ground terminal 70 E therefore. These terminals are disposed in two lines each having the two terminals.
  • the terminal 7 A corresponding to the power source terminal VDD (the external connection terminal 70 A), the terminal 7 B corresponding to the ground terminal (the external connection terminal 70 B), the terminals 7 C 1 , 7 C 2 corresponding to the sensor output terminals S 1 , S 2 (the external connection terminals 70 C 1 , 70 C 2 ), and the terminals 7 D, 7 E corresponding to the motor terminals 70 D, 70 E are buried in the gear cover 100 through the insert molding.
  • the power source conductor 7 A is divided into two pieces on the way thereof and the one end 7 A of each of the divided pieces is drawn to the combined portion with the power source terminal 8 A of the corresponding hall IC 6 .
  • the ground conductor 7 B is also divided into two pieces on the way thereof and the one end 7 B of each of the divided pieces is drawn to the combined portion with the ground terminal 8 A of the corresponding hall IC 6 .
  • the conductors 7 A, 7 B, 7 C 1 , 7 C 2 are exposed at the parts 7 A 7 B 7 C 1 7 C 2 thereof so as to be coupled to the circuit elements such as a capacitor 20 , respectively.
  • the one exposed portion 7 A is provided in correspondence with the power source conductor 7 A
  • the two exposed portions 7 B are provided in correspondence with the ground conductors 7 B
  • the one exposed portion 7 C 1 and the one exposed portion 7 C 2 are provided in correspondence with the sensor output conductors 7 C 1 , 7 C 2 , respectively (see FIGS. 13 and 14 ).
  • These exposed conductor portions are arranged in the order of the sensor output conductor exposed portion 7 C 1 the ground conductor exposed portion 7 B the power source conductor exposed portion 7 A the ground conductor exposed portion 7 B and the sensor output conductor exposed portion 7 C 2 .
  • the circuit element such as the capacitor 20 is coupled between the sensor output conductor exposed portion 7 C 1 nd the ground conductor exposed portion 7 B between the power source conductor exposed portion 7 A and the ground conductor exposed portion 7 B and also between the ground conductor exposed portion 7 B and the sensor output conductor exposed portion 7 C 2 .
  • This circuit element is inserted into a recess portion 15 provided between the conductor exposed portions at the inner surface of the gear cover 100 .
  • the one ends 7 A 7 B 7 C 1 7 C 2 of the conductors 7 A, 7 B, 7 C 1 , 7 C 2 are exposed on the inner wall surface of the housing at predetermined positions of the input/output terminals 8 A, 8 B, 8 C of the hall IC 6 .
  • the one ends 7 A 7 B 7 C 1 7 C 2 of the conductors are bent so as to protrude on the inner wall surface of the housing.
  • groove-shaped guides 10 are provided so as to conduct the input/output terminals 8 A, 8 B, 8 C of the hall IC 6 to the terminal combining portions with the conductor one ends 7 A 7 B 7 C 1 7 C 2 .
  • the input/output terminals 8 A, 8 B, 8 C are fit into the guides 10 and so guided thereby.
  • the guides 10 also serve to position the sensor chip 6 .
  • the input/output terminals 8 A, 8 B, 8 C of the sensor chip 6 are combined with the conductor one ends 7 A 7 B 7 C 1 7 C 2 through the welding operation.
  • the terminals 8 A, 8 B, 8 C are bent so as to be combined at their end portions with the conductor one ends 7 A 7 B 1 7 C 1 7 C 2 .
  • a magnet holder 30 is attached to the one end 41 of the rotation shaft 40 .
  • the magnet holder 30 holds the annular permanent magnet (rotor) 31 .
  • a reference numeral 32 depicts a shaft hole provided at the holder 30 (see FIG. 13 ).
  • the rotation shaft 40 is applied with a return force by a return spring 305 .
  • a reference numeral 44 depicts a C ring.
  • the upper stator 4 is adhered to a projection 5 provided at the inner side of the sensor cover 5 of the sensor housing 1 and so held by the sensor cover 5 .
  • the sensor cover 5 is adhered to the upper opening of the housing 1 in a manner that the four corner portions of the upper stator 4 are positioned and held at the upper surface of the spacer 12 .
  • the upper stator 4 is positioned with respect to the lower stators 2 A, 2 B by the spacer 12 .
  • the spacer 12 holds a uniform gap between the upper stator and the lower stator.
  • the chips 6 are positioned between the magnetic projections 401 and 201 and also between the magnetic projections 402 and 202 , respectively.
  • the sensor chip 6 which is required to have sufficient positioning accuracy, can be positioned simply and further the positioning between the terminals 8 A to 8 C and the conductors 7 A to 7 C can also be positioned easily, by merely fitting the terminals 8 A to 8 C thereof into the guide grooves 10 .
  • Both the relative positioning between the upper stator 4 and the lower stators 2 A, 2 B and the holding of the uniform gap therebetween can be performed simply with a high accuracy by the spacer 12 with an L-shaped projection 12 A provided at the housing 1 .
  • the connector 60 is formed at the one side of the gear cover 100 and the external connection terminals 70 A to 70 E are formed within the connector through the insert molding.
  • the sensor chip can be protected from the electric external noise and serge with the relatively simple configuration. Further, since the capacitor and the zener diode etc. as the circuit elements for protecting from the electric external noise and serge are not required to be housed within a highly integrated IC, the sensor chip can be prevented from being larger in size.
  • the circuit elements such as the capacitor 20 can be coupled between the conductor exposed portions 7 A 7 B 7 C in a state of being inserted into the recess portions 15 , so that the space for the circuit elements within the housing 1 can be saved and so the mounting density of the circuit elements can be enhanced.
  • the non-contact type rotational position sensor which can be summed up the parts, miniaturized, simplified in its assembling procedure and made highly accurate, can be realized.
  • the upper and lower stators 4 , 2 A, 2 B are held by the sensor cover 5 and the housing 1 before the assembling procedure thereof, when the cover is attached to the housing, the upper and lower stators can be relatively positioned automatically to each other. Further, since the magnetic projections and the hall ICs are also configured to be disposed in the vertical direction together with the stators, the sensor can be further summed up the parts, miniaturized, simplified in its assembling procedure and made highly accurate.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic-diagram showing the throttle valve apparatus according to the second embodiment of the invention.
  • the second embodiment differs from the first embodiment in a point that the TCM as well as the circuit mold chips (sensor chips) 6 for the throttle position sensor are incorporated within the gear cover 100 .
  • the circuit configuration of each of the circuit mold chip 6 and the TCM is same as FIG. 1 .
  • the conductors for coupling the circuit mold chip 6 with the TCM may be wired at the gear cover 100 through the insert molding.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing the throttle valve apparatus according to the third embodiment of the invention.
  • the third embodiment differs from the first embodiment in a point that the TCM and the ECU (the engine control unit) as well as the circuit mold chips (sensor chips) 6 for the throttle position sensor are incorporated within the gear cover 100 .
  • the circuit configuration of each of the circuit mold chip 6 and the TCM is same as FIG. 1 .
  • the ECU receives a signal from an accelerator depression amount sensor thereby to calculate a target opening degree instruction signal.
  • the ECU includes an input/output interface, a ROM having control program, a RAM for reading out the control program and storing sensor signals of various kinds of engine states, and a CPU for performing calculation processing.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the throttle valve apparatus according to the fourth embodiment of the invention.
  • the fourth embodiment differs from the first embodiment in a point that the circuit mold chips (sensor chips) 6 for the throttle position sensor and the ECU are incorporated into the gear cover 100 and the control function of the TCM is contained in the CPU of the ECU.
  • the A/D converter, the digital zero span adjustment circuit and the temperature compensation circuit serving as the pre-stage circuits of the ECU are incorporated into the gear cover 100 .
  • a motor driver circuit is incorporated into the gear cover 100 .
  • the CPU of the ECU calculates the motor drive current and performs the feedback control.
  • the hall element signal processing apparatus in the rotation angle detecting element, the hall element signal processing apparatus, the throttle valve control apparatus, wasteful or duplicated conversion processing of the hall element can be eliminated, so that the output of the hall element can be applied to the processing circuit at the succeeding stage as early as possible thereby not to cause control delay etc. of the device, for example.

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